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Piracy in Costa Rica
"October 12 was both exciting and costly for us here in Costa Rica," write Bruce Stevens and Clark Nicholson of the Dana Point-based Gulfstar 50 Two Amigos. "We were anchored off the beach at a resort town of Quepos. More »
Pleasure Cruise to Rescue Operation
Upon arrival and approach to Port Resolution, Tanna Island, Vanuatu, two Northern California-based catamarans — Jim and Kent Milski’s Schionning 49 Sea Level and Steve May and Manjula Dean’s Corsair 41 Endless Summer — jumped into a search and rescue operation for 12 locals and a baby whose panga had capsized in rough conditions on return from 10-mile distant Aniwa Island. More »
The Ha-Ha Forecast
It seems that the weather gods just won’t give up on what’s been the worst summer weather along the coast of California since . . . well, probably the beginning of time. More »
More on Myths About Mexico
We don’t know what it is about the approach of the Baja Ha-Ha each year that causes some people who aren’t even part of the Ha-Ha to get their knickers so bunched up, but they do. More »
Readers Respond to Norm Goldie
As one might expect, we got quite a bit of response to the long and rambling letter in Friday’s ‘Lectronic that Norm Goldie of San Blas insisted that we publish.
Norm Goldie of San Blas, who claims to have “personally” saved the lives of “numerous hundreds” of mariners. More »
Fleet Week Ends With a Boom
Too close for comfort! Jeff Berman snapped this shot of a Blue Angel through the rigging of his Catalina 36 Perseverance. “It was LOUD,” he said.
© 2010 Jeff Berman
Fleet Week couldn’t have ended on a more perfect weekend. More »
Norm Goldie on New Navigation Rules
"No boaters will give instructions to visiting vessels who desire to enter or find moorings in the San Blas Estuary."
"No diagrams or pirated satellite images are to be used [for navigation], as they are useless and in many ways confusing." More »
"No diagrams or pirated satellite images are to be used [for navigation], as they are useless and in many ways confusing." More »
Help Put Art on the Bottom of the Ocean?
"My name is Bob Schuler. I am a New York artist who, as part of the Tethys Project, has slowly been circumnavigating the globe and dropping sculpted granite cubes overboard every 100 miles along the way. More »
Georgette Who?
We don’t normally report on much-touted weather systems that fizzle out, but with 196 Baja Ha-Ha boats soon to be headed south, a lot of sailors have been asking us about the effects of Tropical Storm Georgette. More »
Support the SF A-Cup Bid!
Is it October already? It seems like yesterday that BMW Oracle Racing and USA gave Alinghi 5 a mighty thrashing. But it wasn’t just yesterday, and here we are looking forward to one of the most pivotal moments in the effort to see the match for the 34th America’s Cup come to American waters once again. More »
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